Should You Get the HPV Vaccine?

A doctor gives a 13-year-old girl an HPV vaccination

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The human papillomavirus has the dubious distinction of being the sexually transmitted disease you are most likely to get. It?s also the leading cause of cervical cancer. January has, somewhat arbitrarily, been dubbed Cervical Health Awareness Month (also National Hobby Month and Hot Tea Month, the last at least for good reason). While cervical cancer is the disease most commonly associated with HPV, a recent report from the American Cancer Society emphasizes that HPV?s threat is not gender-specific or organ-specific. While cervical cancer cases are in decline (as are general cancer rates), cancers linked to HPV are on the rise.

The increasing prevalence of HPV-linked cancers should permanently alter our limited conception of the disease as chiefly a women?s issue. Oropharyngeal (which I?ll be vulgarizing as ?oral?) and anal HPV-related cancers (which particularly afflict men who have sex with men) are becoming more common. Oral malignancies account for 37.3 percent of HPV-related cancers, edging out cervical cancer, which makes up 32.7 percent. For men, oral cancers make up 78.2 percent of total HPV-related cancer incidences, and they account for 11.6 percent of cases among women. The death rate for oral cancer is three times higher than that for cervical cancer. (About 40 percent of penile cancer cases are HPV-related, but rates of the disease have basically remained static.)

Historically, most oral cancer cases were caused by smoking and heavy drinking and tended to manifest later in life. But even though fewer Americans indulge in these vices today, more of them are engaging in oral sex. Oral cancer rates have risen and begun showing up in younger individuals who, sensibly, seem to prefer oral sex to cigarettes. As the Oral Cancer Foundation notes, HPV strain 16 ?is conclusively implicated in the increasing incidence of young non-smoking oral cancer patients.? If the disease is detected, the survival rate for HPV-related oral cancer is higher than for the alcohol- and tobacco-correlated versions. But HPV-related cases are often harder to catch because the disease occurs deeper in the mouth (the base of the tongue is a common location), and the warning signs are not as obvious.

There are, of course, HPV vaccines, which the CDC describes as ?very effective? and ?very safe.? Merck released another study in October that found that Gardasil, the company?s vaccine, may cause fainting and brief skin irritation but ?no link with more serious health problems was found.? The Gardasil vaccine defends against four HPV strains: 6 and 11, which cause 90 percent of genital warts; and 18 and 16, which are linked to cancer. It is FDA-approved and CDC-recommended for males and females. Cervarix defends against the same two cancer-causing strains and a few other lesser culprits. It is not licensed for men. Most insurance companies and public health programs will cover the cost of the HPV shots for those who fall between the FDA-licensed ages of 9 through 26 years old.

But while both vaccines successfully defend against various strains of HPV, only Gardasil has been specifically tested and proven to protect against vulvar, vaginal, and anal cancers as well as cervical cancer. The vaccines? preventive abilities have not been proven for other cancers, which prevents the companies from advertising the vaccines? usefulness against the most prevalent danger: HPV-related oral disease. As the CDC notes: ?It is likely that this vaccine also protects men from other HPV-related cancers, like cancers of the penis and oropharynx (back of throat, including base of tongue and tonsils), but there are no vaccine studies that have evaluated these outcomes.? Last year the National Cancer Institute declined to fund proposed clinical trials on the efficacy of the vaccines for oral cancer, possibly due to budgetary constraints. (NCI officials were not able to respond before publication.)

?The very low rate at which boys are vaccinated is a result of the inability of the manufacturers and doctors to speak openly and with factual evidence about oral cancer in a context that parents will understand,? says Brian Hill, president of the Oral Cancer Foundation, who was present at the National Institute of Health meeting where the aid was requested. He says more data and publicity for the vaccines could improve the vaccination rate in boys, which in 2010 was only 1.4 percent. ?Vaccination is not just about cervical cancers but cancers their sons will potentially get in the future.?

The dangers of HPV may sound pretty disturbing, particularly for those who might have shrugged off the virus?s threat because they believed it wouldn?t imperil them or their children. But there are a few important things to understand about HPV. First, we aren?t all doomed. A lot of scary statistics get batted around about HPV?6 million new infections a year! Half of sexually active people will get it in their lives!?but most of the 130-plus strains appear to do no damage, and most people?s immune systems recognize the handful of dangerous strains as something nasty that should be destroyed.

But an unlucky 1 percent of the population will not produce the antibodies necessary to defeat the invaders. And it is basically impossible to know whether you or one of your partners is part of that 1 percent. There isn?t a reliable blood test to tell whether your body is making antibodies against the virus and is thus protected naturally and you don?t need the vaccine.

The vaccines work best in those who have never had sex and therefore have never been exposed to any strain of the virus. That means the safety and efficacy of the vaccines are of limited comfort to those who were sexually active prior to 2006, when the vaccine first became available to females (in 2009 males were officially given the OK).

After a certain age, 26 in the United States, it is assumed most people have had enough sexual partners that they have been exposed to HPV and their bodies have produced the antibodies necessary to defeat it on their own. In the case of women who have been exposed and developed an infection, it is thought that cervical abnormalities will have been detected and dealt with. Vaccinating people after a long sexual history simply isn?t worth the cost, from a public health perspective.

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Powers of prophesy: Davos looks to the future

Participants walk inside the Congress Center during the 43rd Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum, WEF, in Davos, Switzerland, Saturday, Jan. 26, 2013. (AP Photo/Keystone/Jean-Christophe Bott)

Participants walk inside the Congress Center during the 43rd Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum, WEF, in Davos, Switzerland, Saturday, Jan. 26, 2013. (AP Photo/Keystone/Jean-Christophe Bott)

Professor of Economy at the New York University, Noureil Roubini, gestures as he speaks during a session on Pundits, Professors and their Predictions, of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum, WEF, in Davos, Switzerland, Saturday, Jan. 26, 2013. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) ? Forget the endless debates about the euro or government debts. What does the future hold?

The World Economic Forum at Davos is always a showcase for new research, trends and ideas. And those at the annual gathering of the world's elite don't shy away from making predictions, even if they missed foreseeing seminal events like the Great Recession or the Arab Spring revolts.

Here are some predictions from this year's participants:

WEATHER AND WATER

Climate change will lead to more and more extreme weather, which will cause tremendous economic upheaval, predicts New York University economist Nouriel Roubini.

"It's not just that New York is going to be underwater 30 years from now," he said, referring to the devastation caused last fall by Hurricane Sandy.

Oxford University physicist Tim Palmer ? who said as a scientist he preferred probabilities to prediction ? noted there is a 10- to 15-percent chance that the Earth will warm by 6 degrees Celsius within a century, leading to "catastrophic consequences for humanity" ranging from extreme weather to rising seas.

Vali Nasr, dean of the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, said many countries will start running out of water in the coming years.

"Water is the new oil," he said.

A TECHNOLOGICAL SURGE

Laura Tyson, a business professor at the University of California at Berkeley, said one of the great concerns should be "the employment effects of technology," with so many jobs being rendered obsolete by scientific or technological advances.

Discussions of such advances were everywhere at Davos.

Sebastian Thrun, a computer science professor at Stanford University and leader of Google's Self-Driving Car Project, said he thinks Google co-founder Sergey Brin's prediction that within five years driverless cars will be on the streets used by regular people is going to happen.

"It'll be a while before they're going to be mainstream, and there'll be all kinds of interesting questions coming about security, privacy, safety of the system as a whole," Thrun said. "But if they are available within five years for general consumers, I think within 15 years you ought to be able to buy one of those."

MENTAL ILLNESS UNDERSTOOD

Edward Boyden, an associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who directs a neural engineering research group, says new technologies for analyzing the brain will produce significant advances in fighting mental illness.

"Right now we know that certain cell types in the brain are impaired in schizophrenia, or bipolar disorder or autism," he said.

If scientists can develop new technologies to image the brain and control the brain's cells, he said "over the next half-century or so we should be able to really understand how these networks" generate emotion.

Then, in the case of mental illness, "we can insert information into the cells in order to re-sculpt their dynamics and fix what's broken," Boyden said.

Technology entrepreneur Eric Anderson said biotechnology and medicine "are eventually going to be information sciences, with your genes... will determine treatment."

THE LIGHTEST STUFF

Julia Greer, an assistant professor of materials science and mechanics at the California Institute of Technology, says the world is craving a useful, ultra-superlight material to work with.

Her research group collaborated with Hughes Research Lab (HRL) and the University of California, Irvine, to recently develop the world's lightest solid material. She predicted that in 10 to 15 years it will be used as fuel cell catalysts, as acoustic damping devices on submarines, as anti-reflective layers in solar cells, and as components of vehicles sent into space.

The new material, called a micro-lattice, is made up of tiny hollow tubes of nickel-phosphorous that are angled to connect ? and contains 99 percent air, Greer said. It can also be used for high-temperature thermal batteries, heart stents and blood clot catchers, she said.

On a related topic, Roy Johnson, the chief technology officer for Lockheed Martin, predicted huge advances in 3-D printing.

POWER TO THE PEOPLE

One of the most famous predictions is Moore's Law, named after Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, which says that computing power doubles every two years or so. It has proven stunningly correct so far, putting new technological devices in everyone's pockets.

But how long will this law hold? Paul Jacobs, the CEO of Qualcomm, said it's not so certain anymore.

The implications of effectively infinite computing power are staggering ? no more waiting for a power-up or a download; every song, movie and TV episode instantly available; and even the possibility of what scientists call artificial intelligence.

But Jacobs told The Associated Press that the law might be valid only "a couple of more generations."

"I'm worried. In the next couple of nodes we're going to stop getting those numbers unless somebody figures out something," he said.

YOUTH OF THE WORLD UNITE

Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, now the U.N. special envoy for global education, said huge advances in the Internet and technology are enabling young people to connect with each other and "this is opening up the world in a way that has never happened before."

"Young people are beginning to see that the gap between the opportunities and rights they have been promised and the opportunities and rights that are delivered to them is wholly unacceptable," he said at a session on the forum's sidelines. "And the sense that they are being deprived of these opportunities and rights is, I think, going to be the big motivating force over the next few years."

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iPad 5, a Plastic iPhone and 5S Reportedly Coming This Year

It's been just about three months since the fourth generation iPad was announced, so naturally, it's time for some rumors and reports of the fifth gen model to start rolling in -- along with reports on the next generation iPhone. ...

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Shrunken Proton Baffles Scientists

The proton's three quarks are (mostly) confined within a region 0.87 femtometers wide ? or is it 0.84? Image: Flickr/Argonne National Laboratory

One of the Universe's most common particles has left physicists completely stumped. The proton, a fundamental constituent of the atomic nucleus, seems to be smaller than thought. And despite three years of careful analysis and reanalysis of numerous experiments, nobody can figure out why.

An experiment published today in Science only deepens the mystery, says Ingo Sick, a physicist at the University of Basel in Switzerland. "Many people have tried, but none has been successful at elucidating the discrepancy."

The proton's problems started in 2010, when a paper published in Nature seemed to show that the particle was 4% smaller than originally thought. Researchers began with a target of hydrogen, an atom that consists of one proton and one electron. When they bombarded the hydrogen with muons ? heavier cousins of electrons ? from a particle accelerator, a muon would occasionally replace an electron. Probing the muonic hydrogen with a laser yielded a high-precision measurement of the proton's size. The problem is that the measurement differed from those obtained by two other methods?by 4%, or 0.03 femtometers (fm). That's a tiny amount ? 1 fm is 0.000000000001 millimeter ? but is still significantly larger than the error bars on either of the other measurements.

The latest experiment also used muonic hydrogen, but probed a different set of energy levels in the atom. It yielded the same result as the Nature paper ? a proton radius of 0.84 fm, says Aldo Antognini, a physicist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich in Switzerland and an author of both muonic papers. The second measurement "is totally compatible with the previous value," he says.?

But it is still not compatible with the measurements taken by non-muonic techniques, says John Arrington, a nuclear physicist at Argonne National Laboratory in Lemont, Illinois. Errors in the muon-based measurements of the proton radius are unlikely to be to blame, Arrington says, and yet it seems equally unlikely that all the other measurements are wrong, too.

Perplexing puzzle
One possibility is that Antognini's team has inadvertently discovered new physics. It is the only one to use muons to probe the proton ? the others all used electrons, and there is a small possibility that muons interact with protons differently from electrons. The effect would have to be small, or it would also show up in other places, such as the Large Hadron Collider, the big particle accelerator near Geneva, Switzerland.

Arrington and Sick both have their doubts. "I'm a big believer in our understanding of physics," Arrington says. Given the power of existing theories, Sick says, the idea of fundamental differences between muons and electrons is "sort of hard to imagine".

But equally hard to imagine is what might have gone wrong. Experimentalists have combed back over their data. Theorists have recrunched their equations. There could be a problem with the models used to estimate the proton size from the measurements, but so far, none has been identified. "Many of the ideas that have been stated have all been looked at in more detail," Sick says. "Nobody has come up with a clear result."

This article is reproduced with permission from the magazine Nature. The article was first published on January 24, 2013.

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Global warming less extreme than feared? New estimates from a Norwegian project on climate calculations

Jan. 25, 2013 ? Policymakers are attempting to contain global warming at less than 2?C. New estimates from a Norwegian project on climate calculations indicate this target may be more attainable than many experts have feared.

Climate researcher Caroline Leck of Stockholm University has evaluated the Norwegian project and is enthusiastic.

"These results are truly sensational," says Dr Leck. "If confirmed by other studies, this could have far-reaching impacts on efforts to achieve the political targets for climate."

Temperature rise is levelling off

After Earth's mean surface temperature climbed sharply through the 1990s, the increase has levelled off nearly completely at its 2000 level. Ocean warming also appears to have stabilised somewhat, despite the fact that CO₂ emissions and other anthropogenic factors thought to contribute to global warming are still on the rise.

It is the focus on this post-2000 trend that sets the Norwegian researchers' calculations on global warming apart.

Sensitive to greenhouse gases

Climate sensitivity is a measure of how much the global mean temperature is expected to rise if we continue increasing our emissions of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

CO₂ is the primary greenhouse gas emitted by human activity. A simple way to measure climate sensitivity is to calculate how much the mean air temperature will rise if we were to double the level of overall CO₂ emissions compared to the world's pre-industrialised level around the year 1750.

If we continue to emit greenhouse gases at our current rate, we risk doubling that atmospheric CO₂ level in roughly 2050.

Mutual influences

A number of factors affect the formation of climate development. The complexity of the climate system is further compounded by a phenomenon known as feedback mechanisms, i.e. how factors such as clouds, evaporation, snow and ice mutually affect one another.

Uncertainties about the overall results of feedback mechanisms make it very difficult to predict just how much of the rise in Earth's mean surface temperature is due to humanmade emissions. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) the climate sensitivity to doubled atmospheric CO₂ levels is probably between 2?C and 4.5?C, with the most probable being 3?C of warming.

In the Norwegian project, however, researchers have arrived at an estimate of 1.9?C as the most likely level of warming.

Humanmade climate forcing

"In our project we have worked on finding out the overall effect of all known feedback mechanisms," says project manager Terje Berntsen, who is a professor at the University of Oslo's Department of Geosciences and a senior research fellow at the Center for International Climate and Environmental Research -- Oslo (CICERO). The project has received funding from the Research Council of Norway's Large-scale Programme on Climate Change and its Impacts in Norway (NORKLIMA).

"We used a method that enables us to view the entire earth as one giant 'laboratory' where humankind has been conducting a collective experiment through our emissions of greenhouse gases and particulates, deforestation, and other activities that affect climate."

For their analysis, Professor Berntsen and his colleagues entered all the factors contributing to human-induced climate forcings since 1750 into their model. In addition, they entered fluctuations in climate caused by natural factors such as volcanic eruptions and solar activity. They also entered measurements of temperatures taken in the air, on ground, and in the oceans.

The researchers used a single climate model that repeated calculations millions of times in order to form a basis for statistical analysis. Highly advanced calculations based on Bayesian statistics were carried out by statisticians at the Norwegian Computing Center.

2000 figures make the difference

When the researchers at CICERO and the Norwegian Computing Center applied their model and statistics to analyse temperature readings from the air and ocean for the period ending in 2000, they found that climate sensitivity to a doubling of atmospheric CO₂ concentration will most likely be 3.7?C, which is somewhat higher than the IPCC prognosis.

But the researchers were surprised when they entered temperatures and other data from the decade 2000-2010 into the model; climate sensitivity was greatly reduced to a "mere" 1.9?C.

Professor Berntsen says this temperature increase will first be upon us only after we reach the doubled level of CO₂ concentration (compared to 1750) and maintain that level for an extended time, because the oceans delay the effect by several decades.

Natural changes also a major factor

The figure of 1.9?C as a prediction of global warming from a doubling of atmospheric CO₂ concentration is an average. When researchers instead calculate a probability interval of what will occur, including observations and data up to 2010, they determine with 90% probability that global warming from a doubling of CO₂ concentration would lie between 1.2?C and 2.9?C.

This maximum of 2.9?C global warming is substantially lower than many previous calculations have estimated. Thus, when the researchers factor in the observations of temperature trends from 2000 to 2010, they significantly reduce the probability of our experiencing the most dramatic climate change forecast up to now.

Professor Berntsen explains the changed predictions: "The Earth's mean temperature rose sharply during the 1990s. This may have caused us to overestimate climate sensitivity.

"We are most likely witnessing natural fluctuations in the climate system -- changes that can occur over several decades -- and which are coming on top of a long-term warming. The natural changes resulted in a rapid global temperature rise in the 1990s, whereas the natural variations between 2000 and 2010 may have resulted in the levelling off we are observing now."

Climate issues must be dealt with

Terje Berntsen emphasises that his project's findings must not be construed as an excuse for complacency in addressing human-induced global warming. The results do indicate, however, that it may be more within our reach to achieve global climate targets than previously thought.

Regardless, the fight cannot be won without implementing substantial climate measures within the next few years.

Sulphate particulates

The project's researchers may have shed new light on another factor: the effects of sulphur-containing atmospheric particulates.

Burning coal is the main way that humans continue to add to the vast amounts of tiny sulphate particulates in the atmosphere. These particulates can act as condensation nuclei for cloud formation, cooling the climate indirectly by causing more cloud cover, scientists believe. According to this reasoning, if Europe, the US and potentially China reduce their particulate emissions in the coming years as planned, it should actually contribute to more global warming.

But the findings of the Norwegian project indicate that particulate emissions probably have less of an impact on climate through indirect cooling effects than previously thought.

So the good news is that even if we do manage to cut emissions of sulphate particulates in the coming years, global warming will probably be less extreme than feared.

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Donald Cerrone, John Dodson and the other Jackson?s MMA fighters show family atmosphere makes better fighters

CHICAGO -- Donald Cerrone and John Dodson are at it again. After needling each other throughout the UFC on Fox 6 open workouts, the flyweight and the lightweight start teasing each other during Thursday's press conference. If you didn't see the smile in their eyes, you would think these two are opponents, not teammates.

But they are teammates, working together at Jackson's MMA in New Mexico as they prepared for their fights this weekend along with Shawn Jordan and Clay Guida. The camaraderie that has grown from their time in the gym showed as Cerrone and Dodson go back and forth.

"There's no tension or anything because we play around with John, and I will keep picking on him," Cerrone said.

"I already told you that. Me and Demetrious [Johnson, Dodson's opponent on Saturday] will beat your [expletive]," Dodson replies to Cerrone, before turning back to the gaggle of reporters. "With all of us playing around, it's just my family. It's my big brother trying to pick on me."

For Guida, that playfulness has turned into a second family he finds at the gym in Albuqurque, New Mexico.

"It's my family here, it's my family in Albuquerque, and it's a homecoming for Greg Jackson, too. He's from the west suburbs. To see Coach come back and get to work with his students, to see John Dodson be the main event in the flyweight title bout, that's just huge."

Jackson, the coach behind the fighters, still has most of his family in Chicago. He claims Chicago sports teams -- because his mother would never forgive him if he didn't -- and he likes bringing his fighters back here.

"When I'm downtown, it reminds me of being a kid. I spent a lot of summers here. When I come back, I get to see some old friends. I love Chicago."

"It's a cool camaraderie. A lot of ways, it's just another day at the office. It's kind of, we've been training together and now we'll see each other at the event. They're all pretty pro about it. It's cool because you get good training partners, and they're all in the same boat."

Dodson is often the man behind tension being broken. He has worked with Jackson since he was in his teens, and has always been in that role of tension breaker.

"What he's brought is that he's always in a good mood. All the time. He's just a happy-go-lucky guy. There's some people in your life who are sunshiney, who are elevating, they don't complain, they work hard, and that's him. It's nice to see him get that title shot. Hopefully he'll win, because he deserves it. He's really a great, great kid. He's always been a great kid."

As usual, Jackson has several fighters on the card this weekend. He's gotten used to juggling fighters for every UFC card, and dismisses with a laugh anyone who calls those many fighters boring.

"Donald Cerrone? My God that guy is boring. You know who is even more boring? Little John himself. Name one guy he's knocked out in the UFC ... oh wait," Jackson said sarcastically. "It's silly. Even Clay Guida. He had one bad fight, but calling that guy boring is the height of stupidity. I think that argument is pretty well dead."

The fights that will air on Fox will feature two Jackson's fighters -- Cerrone and Dodson. But he doesn't point to that to show his fighters are not boring.

"The validation is every week when we have an exciting fight. When you have the numbers of fighters I do, not every fight is going to blow everyone out of the water. That's just numbers. But to have the numbers that we have and have the success that we have, and have exciting fighters. That argument never bothers me because it's so silly."

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A Message from the Dean | Seidenberg School News

23. Jan, 2013

First of all, I must thank the Seidenberg Community for the warm welcome that I have received since coming to Pace in mid-August.? I am excited to be back on the east coast to lead new initiatives and promote existing programs to flourish.? I was at MIT from 1979 to 2004. Between 2004 and 2012, I spent the academic year at the University of Arizona and the summers at MIT. ?The Seidenberg School is unique as it encompasses all aspects of Computer Science and Information Systems.

It has been a busy time at the Seidenberg School.? The Information Assurance Program?continues to be strong at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.? We have been reaccredited as a National Center of Academic Excellence:

http://www.pace.edu/seidenberg/research/labs/information-assurance-education-and-research-center

Students receive full scholarships from the Department of Homeland Security or the Scholarship for Service Program through a grant from the National Science Foundation, and faculty and students collaborate on research on Biometric Keystroke Recognition and diverse facets of Cybersecurity.

I am instituting a new initiative on TeleHealth, based on my assessment that this is going to be the next trillion dollar industry.? Back in 2001, I proposed the notion that healthcare applications should be handled in a three pronged manner involving on-site personnel, off-site personnel, and advanced computer techniques. My ongoing research in the area of Telemedicine (?The Constitutionality of Current Legal Barriers to Telemedicine in the United States: Analysis and Future Directions of Its Relationship to National and International Health Care Reform,?(with D. Sao), Health Matrix: Journal of Law-Medicine?, 11, 2011.), coupled with my research focusing on distributed teams and the concept of a 24 hour knowledge factory Expanding the 24 Hour Workplace, Wall Street Journal,?September 15, 2007 (extended article and online podcast interview), looks at the technical, business, medical, legal, public policy, economic, and other hurdles related to this emerging field.? The Seidenberg School anticipates offering the first of an array of courses related to telemedicine in the Spring 2013 semester.

Based on the growing realization and computers and technology are increasingly relevant to all fields of study, we have increased the number of Seidenberg courses that are available to all members of the PACE community. CIS101 was the course that students from other programs at PACE University normally took at Seidenberg School. Commencing Spring 2013, we will have the following set of 5 courses for students from other schools of PACE University:

CIS 101, Introduction to Computing

CIS 103, Problem Solving Using Technology

CIT 110, Introduction to Information Technology (also a Writing-enhanced course)

CS 121, Computer Programming I

TS 105, Computers for Human Empowerment

My colleagues and I are Seidenberg School are currently involved in designing new interdisciplinary courses and programs with other schools.

I look forward to continuing to meet new folks from the industry, our illustrious alums, and current students.? Please keep in touch with us and review our website (http://seidenberg.pace.edu) often to learn of the new and exciting initiatives within the School.

?

Amar Gupta

Dean and Professor

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That's Grace! | Teach With Joy

There are some days when I wonder how I am going to get through homeschooling my children. Titus and Tiana woke up with bad coughs (a cough that has lingered for several days). Titus threw up phlegm. My two older boys rolled out of bed in slow motion and walked about in slow motion.

I was waiting for them to finish their breakfast so we could get the day started, but they were all lingering around in their pajamas. I knew I would have to play the role of motivating mom. Honestly, I don?t like having to do this. It?s tiring.

I love it when they wake up, perky and alive, excited to learn. Well, the reality is, homeschooling goes through its ups and downs. Children get sick, moms get sick (and pregnant!), attitudes get in the way, spiritual issues have to be dealt with, and the kids need constant training, instruction, and discipline.?In fact, homeschooling often feels like it is a character education not just for my kids, but for me.? The obstacles and hurdles make me dig down deep and remember that I?m doing this in faith, not always knowing what?s going to happen next but confident that my equipper and sustainer is the Lord.

Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. (James 1:2-3 NASB)

Endurance does bear fruit, and I hope in the fruit of all this labor ? the days when the eyes of my children twinkle because they have overcome a task they thought they couldn?t do, when they progress through their material like bullet trains, when they make new discoveries and bubble over with creative inspirations, when they have insights about their relationship with God, or when they tell me, ?I really like being with you, mom. Thanks for teaching me.? These moments do come and when they do, I?m re-charged and ready to go again.

I?ve had to come to terms with the reality that homeschooling is my cross to bear in this season of my life. It?s not the load that I mind so much but the self-denial it requires. Jesus says, ?Pick up your cross daily, deny yourself and follow me.? It takes a whole lot of self-denial to homeschool. I have to deny the temptation to control my kids or to compare them with one another and with others. I have to deny my pride and tendency to take credit for their successes. I have to deny the doubts that plague me when I feel like, ?Oh gosh, are they learning anything?? I have to deny my own comfort and liberties when I would rather do something else besides sit through a morning of teaching my children. I have to deny opportunities to serve myself and pursue my wants because homeschooling is the all-consuming lifestage that I am in, and I really don?t have time to do much else.? I have to deny my own laziness when I want to lie down in bed and sleep because this pregnancy is tiring me out!

Just recently, I was having a conversation with playgroup moms about homeschooling. At one point, we were all talking about the difficulties we have to deal with. They said something like, ?You are just blessed because your children are smart. It?s easy to teach them.?? This comment hit me on two levels ? carnal and spiritual. Let me talk about the carnal first. I was a little bit hurt. It?s the same way I feel when people think my pregnancy is ?easy? because I am not puking all the time. Sure, Joy is pregnant, but it?s nothing for her. It?s her fifth child. No biggie, she?s been there and done that before. She just pops them out.?Well, I may not puke and my kids may not appear to be ?struggling? learners, but homeschooling in our house is not always a postcard.

Good gracious! My kids have days when they act plain dumb. I mean, just this morning, Titus looked at the word ?PET? and couldn?t read it. Really?! After finishing the entire Hooked on Phonics Kindergarten level so that he was proficiently reading four to five letter words and a bunch of sight words, and then he looks at me and says, ?I don?t know that word?!? Was this a cruel joke? Did his cough give him a foggy brain? Did too much of the IPad over the weekend slow his down his capacity to think?

My response was, ?Okay, hon, we won?t homeschool today. You are not well and you should rest. But this also means that you won?t do Reading Eggs on the computer either. Your brain needs to take a break.? (Reading Eggs is a great phonics program which he was only entitled to access after he learning to read.) I meant well but he busted out into tears and then vomited out his phlegm because he kept crying. Lovely morning, eh? (You can refer to paragraph 1 about the vomit). I explained to him afterwards that I really wanted him to take it easy and get well. He was fine and spent some time playing with insect stickers instead.

Let me go on?Friday morning, Edan said, ?I don?t want to do any work today.?

?Oh really? And what would you like to do?? I wanted to explore this.

?Nothing.?

Very calmly I replied, ?Okay, you can do nothing. That?s fine with me. But this means you will stay home and do nothing while your brothers and sister go to playgroup and you will also do nothing when they watch a movie with their cousins tonight and have lots of fun. You can sit here and do nothing.?

?I will do my work,? was his quick conclusion. And he did. Whew.

So, just to be clear, my kids are very normal.

On a spiritual level, the comment my playgroup friends made about my kids being EASY to teach humbled me. After all, Who am I? Who am I to have the circumstances that I do, the resources available to me, the husband, and the children that bring me so much joy? Yes, I think my kids are special, not because they are genetically superior but because they are God?s gifts to me. I don?t deserve them or any of his blessings. It is grace. God?s grace. If anyone should look upon my children and affirm their abilities or talents, the credit does not go to me, Edric, our kids, or even to homeschooling. ?Everything is by God?s grace alone.

The homeschooling experience doesn?t always come in a pretty package. Open this and your parenting will be successful! Open this and you will have brilliant children!?If anyone feeds you advertisement like that about homeschooling, turn around and run away! It?s not true. Days like this are a very healthy reminder that homeschooling is an invitation to experience God?s grace more than it is an antidote to family and children issues.

The longer I homeschool, the more cognisant I am that it is not a cure-all solution. When it is esteemed as such, well that?s what you call idolatry. Much of the worrying and fretting, the panicking and impatience enters into my homeschooling when I want to manage all the outcomes and dictate the pace of my children?s learning or their maturity. On some days, God allows this to happen, but most of the time he shows me that I control nothing but my own responses and reactions to what he is doing in my life and the lives of my kids. This doesn?t mean that I don?t have goals, prepare lessons, or have a schedule for my kids. I believe in doing my part. But the results are always a testament, not to my ability to teach or train my children or the magic of the homeschooling experience, but to the grace of God.

Grace comes with contentment ? contentment in my weaknesses. It was wonderfully coincidental that the first lesson the boys and I had together this morning was on the character of CONTENTMENT. I?m using a book by Ruth Younts called, Get Wisdom. She defines contentment as being satisfied because God is working everything together for my good and for his glory. The verse she gave as a reference was Philippians 4:11, I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances.

This is exactly what I needed to deal with this morning?s slow start and my grumpy, sickly, not-all-there children. Contentment is accepting my children?s progress, the challenges, their not-so-shining moments, the waiting and hoping in the meantime, their uniqueness and limitations (as well as my own), and being able to truthfully say, ?Lord, I thank you for causing all things to work together for the good of my children and myself that you might get the glory.? Only then comes the beautiful satisfaction in his grace. Only then does it look EASY.

Amazingly, we finished homeschooling by 11:30 am today with my children smiling at the end. How that happened is a wonder. But like I said, that?s grace!

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Super Hexagon tops Android Games of the Week

What a week it has been for Android releases! Not only do we get excellent sequels like Trial Xtreme 3, but we also get a fantastic and challenging arcade indie game from indie rock star Terry Cavanagh. It?s a game of pure, unadulterated challenge. If that?s not for you, we?ve also got an Android port of King?s Bounty: Legions, a casual puzzler with blobs in it, an impossibly casual roguelike, and an action-packed scrolling shooter full of zombies.

This game may not be as popular as the next two or three listed below, but its simple and elegant brilliance makes it my favorite new release. Featuring a simple goal, psychedelic visuals and a soundtrack that can only be described as bumpin?, this is one of the most challenging games you?ll play this year. All you do is rotate a triangle around a hexagon to avoid the walls that constantly close in from all sides. Gameplay sessions usually last thirty seconds, but you?ll hit that retry button an absurd number of times and end up playing much longer. It?s a pure skill-based challenge, and as such, probably won?t be everyone?s cup of tea. Terry Cavanagh also created VVVVVV and Don?t Look Back, both pixilated platforming adventures with a very unique style, the latter of which also received an Android port.

It?s been quite a while since Deemedya and Galapogos released Trial Xtreme 2, probably the most popular Android foil to the Trials HD PC/console racing series. The sequel is finally here and with massive improvements. The core gameplay still comes complete with the same old hardcore, obstacle-filled, challenging race courses. The new bits include biker and bike customization options, sharper visuals, and a re-done physics engine that seems more realistic than the last two games (which I found lacking). You can even race against the best runs of your friends or top leaderboard placers to prove your mad skills. Best of all, this time around the full game is totally free.

This Facebook and iOS strategy game has been a long time coming for Android users, but it was worth the wait. The King?s Bounty series has quite the history. The original was released in 1990, with a spiritual sequel called ?The Legend? coming out in 2008 and revitalizing the property. That sequel redefined the original, keeping many core strategy elements, but updating them with modern RPG mechanics. Legions, a completely free spin-off that kept the deep tactical gameplay intact, was ?released in the summer of 2011. This port is a little buggy, and there are some freemium elements that might vex people, but it?s a real medieval feast of a game for all Android gamers, hardcore and casual alike.

Mobile game developers Robot Invader impressed everyone with their debut Android title Wind-Up Knight, a clever and challenging auto-runner. With that success came high expectations for their next title, which is finally here. Rise of the Blobs is an interesting casual puzzler, in the vein of Tetris or Bust-a-Move. It has you dropping fruit onto matching colored blobs that are rising up, likely to devour you horribly, from a primordial pool of lava. After a blob has its fruit, you tap to pop it, which pops any blobs touching it of the same color. Usual tropes like bomb pieces come along, and all in all it?s a nice game with a charming aesthetic. It does to unexpectedly ramp up in difficulty quite quick, though.

Dungelot is the latest game from Red Winter Software. Their last two games were barely played despite being OK, but they?re really starting to build a reputation for themselves with this latest release. Basically, this is the oft-fabled ?Casual Roguelike.? It has you roaming randomly generated dungeons, uncovering tiles which can have treasure, enemies, traps, or more than likely nothing underneath them. It?s a well-designed game with a cool cartoon visual style. Unfortunately, it has but one crippling flaw. There is no way to save your progress at all. I mean, even getting a phone call or quickly checking another app will make you lose all progress. But hey, until that?s fixed, you can always play the Lite version.

This is the latest game from Com2Us. It?s a side-scrolling shooter that puts you in the blood-stained shoes of the last human survivor of a zombie apocalypse. You are always moving to some degree with the scrolling screen, but still have full range movement and aiming capabilities. As you mow enemies down, you?ll collect tons of weapons, get into different vehicles, and don better armor. Gameplay is simple and fun, and the art style is hilariously serious and gritty while also being cartoony. It?s basic, over the top arcade action at its best. Although, the game is surprisingly incompatible with many common Android devices.

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Gold/silver paper smackdown coming?

1. Gold/silver paper smackdown coming?

   Good evening everyone,

   Had to post this, just in case I am right I think we are about to see another smackdown of gold and silver prices via a paper flood later this week. We have been on an uptrend for the past few weeks and I'm sure the powers that be don't like that. No hard facts to base my theory on, just a gut feeling I guess.

   One thing I have noticed, although it may be just a coincidence, is that when APMEX announces emails about a sale on silver products, a smackdown occurs within 48 hours of the close of their sale. I noticed this particularly because I made a few purchases during their sales, then watched the price get smacked down in the following days. I wish I had filed all of their emails so I could go back and compare but I deleted them.

   Well in checking my email today I recieved an email from APMEX for a pretty good deal on 10oz silver bars etc. but thought it was wierd that the sale was for a 1 day only 24 hours sale which ends at 3pm CST 2 hours before they close for the day.

   Maybe i'm just going crazy~ Or maybe i'm just hoping it will happen so I can stack a few more pounds of silver away for the apocalypse

   Thanks for listening - you are my therapy group
   J

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2. The U.S. Mint is TELLING you, by suspending ASE sales temporarily, that silver supply is tight, although there seems to be plenty of junk silver around. The time to worry is when the debt-limit negotiations go into the ditch.

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   I think it will probably get smacked down. But it might spike up first or maybe stay flat for awhile.

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4. "...I think it will probably get smacked down. But it spike up first or maybe stay flat for awhile."

   That pretty well covers all the possibilities.

   I noticed this morning that Citigroup has changed their outlook for gold:

   "...At Citigroup on Monday, analysts cut their gold forecasts for 2013 by 4.2% to $1,675 a troy ounce and 0.2% to $1,653 a troy ounce for 2014. Their silver price forecasts remained unchanged." I could not locate their current silver forecast, but seem to recall it's around a 5% gain for 2013.

   I see evidence, even among CT members, that expenses of daily living are causing some folks to liquidate their stacks. I think that trend will accelerate later in the year, especially in Europe, and that will create downward price pressure, more so if the world's central banks sell off their silver (don't think they have very much) in order to buy gold.

   Nevertheless, I'm still a buyer, not a seller.

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5. Silver Bug

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   The U.S. Mint is TELLING you, by suspending ASE sales temporarily, that silver supply is tight, although there seems to be plenty of junk silver around. The time to worry is when the debt-limit negotiations go into the ditch.

   Even premiums on junk silver are high. Dealers paying 65 cents over spot in some cases, where they used to pay less than spot and sell for around spot. That is another bellwether of supply constraints.

   I'm not sure whether we will see a smackdown soon. Doing it right now with supply as it is could backfire and tighten supply even further if there is merit to the constraints, and could have more of a counter effect potentially. So any smackdowns at this point will have to be weighed carefully, but the COMEX did recently add a sizeable portion of physical metal so they should have a little room to breathe still.

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   I guess it depends on what type of supply "constraint" this is. Is this a "they can't mine/refine/produce the silver fast enough" situation, or more of a "holy cow people bought way more than we expected and we ran out of on-hand inventory" situation.

   In my mind, the former would bring a higher rise to the pricing and possibly bring a higher stable price shelf through the year while the latter will cause a simple short-term spike in pricing until inventories are replenished and then it'll dip back down and stay lower.

   Either way, I'm in the "just keep buying" camp, cost averaging over the long haul. I'll not be spending a bunch of money in one shot, but just spreading out the same money over longer, so the fluctuations "hurt" less. And I'm sticking with mostly silver right now, possibly a little small fractional gold here and there.

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7. I think it is a mixture of higher then normal demand keeping the refiners/miners busy... but also a lack of people willing to sell at the current price levels. If the price goes higher you will see more silver on the market. Although I still believe silver will be in shorter physical supply then gold in a few years causing prices to rise.

   Problem being that the paper pushers are keeping the price suppressed allowing large institutions/investors to buy up physical at low prices... once they have the physical they need I believe the price will skyrocket leaving those without physical metal wiping their tears away with their paper ETF certificates... which are probably just digital nowadays so they will just be weaping at their computers

   $.02
   J

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8. Coin Hoarder

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   I am not 100% sure but I think large bullion dealers hold a short position against their holdings of physical. This enables them to protect themselves from losing money when precious metal prices decline. They make money on the spreads in an up or down market.

   The debt ceiling debate may cause a decline in PM short term however we all know both parties will eventually come together and ultimately raise the ceiling. More debt = Devaluing USD

   I hate the argument that paper silver is not the same as physical. Last time I checked, you can purchase silver on the COMEX and receive physical 1000oz bars. Why is it that everybody believes their is a conspiracy against precious metals? Nobody calls manipulation when PM prices rise.

   I am long Silver, Platinum, and Palladium.

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9. The US Mint "supply constraint" is real but meaningless to POS. US coin buyers are a trifle of the physical mkt (however important in their own minds.) But psychological hype may push US bullion premiums HIGHER in the short term - dealers will (and should) milk this 'Silver shortage' nonsense for all its worth.

   US bullion buyers might prudently await the likely Gold retrace, come March/April June. (That's just my two cents! Assuming Ag follows Au down in bigger price moves.)
   On the other side of this argument, Bron dismisses the idea of Silver Seasonality: http://www.perthmintbullion.com/Libr...ty_1.sflb.ashx

   Also check the Barron's Roundtable for 2013 in this and coming issues. (Marc Faber did not attend this year; Fred Hickey filled the Gold-Bug seat.) This is what I've been saying, too.
   http://blogs.barrons.com/focusonfund...d/?mod=BOLBlog

   
   Fred, gold wasn't such a great investment last year.
   Hickey: It has been great for 12 years, but it doesn't always go up. In the last great gold bull market, gold rose from $100 an ounce in 1970 to $800 in 1980. But {Gold} fell 46% in 1975-76. Anyone who left the market then missed the best part of the rally -- a subsequent rise of 600%. In the latest 12-year period, there have been five corrections in the gold price, ranging between 15% and 30%. The latest correction was 19%, and gold has bounced off its recent lows already. If Silver typically has ~2x the volatility of POG, there could be another spectacular Ag decline when Gold gets whacked (again): that's the point to BUY, POS ~under $25. maybe as low as $19?
   I don't think anyone here should be a Seller of bullion, either.

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10. People seem to want to be recognized as a great bullion forecaster, but they are afraid to take a solid position. If you can't make a case besides the cat spit up a hairball on your ASE, or say up, down, both, and if not, it is a paper conspiracy, then don't predict. I can accept those who honestly say it is a "guess", but most others seem to be whistling through the graveyard hoping that if they say so, their value will be protected.

    If you want to predict, stand up and make a markable prediction( like 1700-1710 on 3/1/13). Then if you are correct, you can claim to have gotten it right this time, repeat 10 times and you may have a following. If you are wrong, then you are wrong, no big deal unless you are a dealer. I feel there are way too many economic variables to make a close prediction on PMs. IMO.

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11. I honestly don't know enough about bullion investing to give any real opinion but I would like to see silver drop so I may finally add to my pathetic stack.

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12. Self confessed hoarder

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    Even premiums on junk silver are high. Dealers paying 65 cents over spot in some cases, where they used to pay less than spot and sell for around spot. That is another bellwether of supply constraints.

    I'm not sure whether we will see a smackdown soon. Doing it right now with supply as it is could backfire and tighten supply even further if there is merit to the constraints, and could have more of a counter effect potentially. So any smackdowns at this point will have to be weighed carefully, but the COMEX did recently add a sizeable portion of physical metal so they should have a little room to breathe still.

    I wonder how long that will last. Junk silver is still being sold at spot here, and paying less than spot. I wonder how tightly correlated different areas of the country are on silver premiums.

    Member ANA, ANS, ONS, TCACC, and other random alphabetical concoctions.

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13. The best contribution "forecasters" can make is the discussion of macro-trends, based on careful reading of a lot of sources, plus a few statistics. For instance, if Reuters reported that Belgium and Netherlands had completed selling all the silver their central banks hold, and immediately used the proceeds to buy gold on the open market (this is "made-up news"), that would be highly significant.

    To read that Dealer so-and-so is selling 5% under spot this month, that could mean that Mrs. Dealer ran a red light and t-boned a Mercedes, and they're a little short, just twenty grand collision coverage [that only fixes the Merc's titanium voice-controlled, programmable, low-drag, telescoping, taco-warming, radar-detecting side mirror]. But I digress.

    I agree, saying silver could go up, down, or sideways is useless. And when I post, you may remember the fact that I do not plan to SELL silver unless I have a dire emergency. I also don't get concerned the least bit about 1% moves in any direction, although if that happened every day for a week, I would step up my pace of reading all the gee-whiz commentators to look for someone's innovative insight.

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14. I've been seeing huge premiums on everything including junk silver.

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15. One news fact that I haven't seen mentioned is that India ( reported as world's largest gold buyer) has raised the tax on gold imports to 6% from previous 4% 'to reduce a record current- account deficit, and moderate demand for PM. About 80% of India's account deficit is due to gold imports'.

    So a question becomes, will this decrease the purchases, frighten Indians into paying the extra tax and buying more, or increase the local premium when buying/selling within India, etc.? I think this has the possibility of affecting the POG more than many other factors. IMO.

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Childhood diagnosis of ADHD increased dramatically over 9-year period

Jan. 21, 2013 ? The rate of children diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder rose dramatically between 2001 and 2010, with non-Hispanic white children having the highest diagnosis rates, according to a Kaiser Permanente study published in the journal JAMA Pediatrics (formerly Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine). The study also showed there was a 90 percent increase in the diagnosis of ADHD among non-Hispanic black girls during the same nine-year period.

The study examined the electronic health records of nearly 850,000 ethnically diverse children, aged 5 to 11 years, who received care at Kaiser Permanente Southern California between 2001 and 2010. It found that among these children, 4.9 percent, or 39,200, had a diagnosis of ADHD, with white and black children more likely to be diagnosed with the neurobehavioral disorder than Hispanics and Asian/Pacific Islander children. For instance, in 2010, 5.6 percent of white children in the study had an ADHD diagnosis; 4.1 percent of blacks; 2.5 percent of Hispanics; and 1.2 percent of Asian/Pacific Islanders.

The study also examined increases in the rates of first-time ADHD diagnosis. Researchers found that the incidence of newly diagnosed ADHD cases rose from 2.5 percent in 2001 to 3.1 percent in 2010 -- a relative increase of 24 percent. Black children showed the greatest increase in ADHD incidence, from 2.6 percent of all black children 5 to 11 years of age in 2001 to 4.1 percent in 2010, a 70 percent relative increase. Rates among Hispanic children showed a 60 percent relative increase, from 1.7 percent in 2001 to 2.5 percent in 2010. White children showed a 30 percent relative increase, from 4.7 percent in 2001 to 5.6 percent in 2010, while rates for Asian/Pacific Islander children and other racial groups remained unchanged over time.

"Our study findings suggest that there may be a large number of factors that affect ADHD diagnosis rates, including cultural factors that may influence the treatment-seeking behavior of some groups," said study lead author Darios Getahun, MD, PhD, from Kaiser Permanente Southern California's Department of Research & Evaluation. "These findings are particularly solid given that our study relied on clinical diagnoses of ADHD based on the criteria specified within the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and that it represents a large and ethnically diverse population that can be generalized to other populations."

In addition, the study found that boys were three times more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD than girls. Higher family incomes also were associated with the likelihood of ADHD diagnosis; children from families with a household income of more than $30,000 a year were nearly 20 percent more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD than children from families making less $30,000.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, ADHD is one of the most common neurobehavioral disorders of childhood. The CDC estimates that between 4 percent and 12 percent of school-aged children have the disorder, which generates health care costs of between $36 billion and $52 billion per year. Children with ADHD are more likely to experience learning problems, miss school, become injured and experience troublesome relationships with family members and peers, according to the researchers.

"While the reasons for increasing ADHD rates are not well understood, contributing factors may include heightened awareness of ADHD among parents and physicians, which could have led to increased screening and treatment," said Dr. Getahun. "This variability may indicate the need for different allocation of resources for ADHD prevention programs, and may point to new risk factors or inequalities in care."

This study is part of Kaiser Permanente's broader efforts to deliver transformational health research regarding the impacts of ADHD. One recent Kaiser Permanente study found an association between conditions in which the prenatal brain is deprived of oxygen and the risk of ADHD in children and adults.

And last December, a Kaiser Permanente study found little evidence of increased risk of heart attack, sudden cardiac death or stroke associated with use of medications used primarily to treat ADHD. The population-based study included more than 150,000 adults aged 25 to 64 years who used ADHD medications.

These studies are made possible in part by Kaiser Permanente's extensive electronic health record system, one of the largest private systems in the world. The organization's integrated model and electronic health record system securely connects 9 million people, 611 medical offices, and 37 hospitals, linking patients with their health care teams, their personal health information and the latest medical knowledge. The system coordinates patient care between the physician's office, the hospital, radiology, the laboratory and the pharmacy, and helps eliminate the pitfalls of incomplete, missing, or unreadable charts. It also connects Kaiser Permanente's researchers to one of the most extensive collections of longitudinal and de-identified medical data available, facilitating studies and important medical discoveries that shape the future of health and care delivery for patients and the medical community.

In addition to lead author Dr. Getahun, study authors included Steven J. Jacobsen, MD, PhD, and Wansu Chen of the Kaiser Permanente Southern California Department of Research & Evaluation; Michael J. Fassett, MD, of the Department of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, West Los Angeles Medical Center; and Kitaw Demissie, MD, PhD, and George G. Rhoads, MD, MPH, of the Department of Epidemiology, University of Medicine and Denistry, New Jersey-School of Public Health.

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Journal Reference:

1. Darios Getahun, Steven J. Jacobsen, Michael J. Fassett, Wansu Chen,Kitaw Demissie, MD, George G. Rhoads. Recent Trends in Childhood Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. JAMA Pediatr, 2013;():1-7 DOI: 10.1001/2013.jamapediatrics.401

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